Panda Mery | 서판다

Almost too calm productive irritant, neurodivergent researcher, bricoleur and flâneur

panfnordda@gizmofnordnaut.net

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calm, almost too calm

1. Name of this website.

2. Description on a police custody record: ‘RISK ASSESSMENT: D[etained] P[risoner] is calm on arrival, almost too calm’.

3. State of the author when in stressful situations.

4. Title of a chapter in the book Being Autistic.

gizmonaut

1. Domain name of this website.

2. Portmanteau word (gizmo + astronaut) meaning an explorer of things you can’t put a name to.

Location: Gwacheon, South Korea, Earth

Current projects #

• Flâneur observing the infraordinary surrounding us.
• Bricoleur attempting to repair the world one gizmo at a time.
• Researcher (연구원), Forest Media | 숲생각 collective.
• Developing Calm Spaces, a forum and review website by and for older Autists.
• Board member of AutAngel, a community interest company run by and for Autists.

Photographs #

My photographs capture an Autistic observation of the infraordinary surrounding us. You can view them on Flickr.

A selection of articles #

• Police apologise for unlawful arrest, after four years, one month and 26 days
  (more details: Innocent in London – ‘Suspicious behaviour on the tube’)
• ‘Being Autistic’ – Calm, almost too calm, an autobiographical chapter
• Designing an autism communication card
• We do not want to be better served by the justice system, we want a better system
• Autistic behaviour considered suspicious (video)
• Counter terrorism campaign, a risk for autistics
• Shining some light on two large controversial autism research projects: Spectrum 10K & Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials (AIMS-2)
• Open letter to the National Autistic Society (NAS) trustees
• Evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into policing and mental health (supplementary evidence about the incidents at a mental health secure unit and Taser use forms)

• Manipulation of Words (The Future of Text I)

• Profile on the Restart Project's blog
• Repair, don't despair! Towards a better relationship with electronics
• About spoons and spudgers: community repair for neurodivergents

• Stalking Bill Gates
• Happy hackers do it under canvas
• Techie and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same
• Confectionery & the history of telecoms
• Multics source reveals le jetteur des gazongues
• Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!

• Fighting torture with copyright – Moral musos work to rule (follow-ups)
• Secret evidence undermines the right to a fair trial
• GCHQ did not illegally spy on me
• A pawn in their propaganda machine
• Innocent in the UK, unwelcomed in the USA
• Engaging in the DNA database debate
• The mobile phone as self-inflicted surveillance – If you don't have one, what have you got to hide?
• Why is a different operating system needed?

• Read more blog articles in the blog.

Magazines archive #

• EXE Magazine, a British software development magazine I edited from 1994 to 1999
• Le Sourire (1901-1904), a French weekly satirical magazine started by my great-grandfather (version française)

'Pataphysical and other occurences #

  A smartphone and a Bluetooth headset are some of the tools that have hanged from my batbelt. I have been found to carry other stuff too.

  Recollecting a few 'Pataphysical happenings.

  Some of my Freedom of Information requests are on WhatDoTheyKnow (some older ones also on WhatDoTheyKnow).

  My Curriculum vitae, access rider and ORCID

⁂  Fediverse: @panda@assemblag.es

Many thanks to everyone visiting this website. It has been developed while listening to Nahmi’s music. Fellow humans, avoid Julian Oliver's gobble gobble.